Sunday, May 6, 2012

George lindsey

George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D., died early Sunday morning. He was 83.

(Los Angeles Times)

George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D., died early Sunday morning. He was 83.

(Miami Herald)

(Reuters) - Actor George Lindsey, who played bumbling Goober Pyle on the 1960s TV series The Andy Griffith Show, died on Sunday. He was 83.

(Orlando Sentinel)

"I told you I was sick," was a line that the now-late George Smith Lindsey, a beloved TV star to fans of Hee Haw and The Andy Griffith Show, once joked he would leave as the closing on his epitaph. At 12:05 a.m.

(Examiner)

George Lindsey, best known for playing Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, has died. He was 83 years old. Lindsey died Sunday in Nashville after an extended hospitalization, The Tennessean reports.

(Seattle Post Intelligencer)

The 83-year-old actor, who was known for his portrayal of Goober Pyle on the CBS sitcom, has died early Sunday, May 6 morning at a healthcare center in Nashville, Tennessee. George Lindsey has passed away at the age of 83.

(AceShowbiz)

George Lindsey, the actor best known for his portrayal of dim yet lovable gas station mechanic Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, died at 12:05 a.m. on Sunday, May 6 after a brief illness. He was 83. Born in Fairfield, Ala.

(WKRN)

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- George Lindsey, the actor who portrayed the country-bumpkin mechanic Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, died Sunday after a brief illness, his family said. He was 83.

(KCRA.com)

A friend once told me if the communists took over the U.S., he would find me in front of a television if The Andy Griffith Show was on a station somewhere. He was correct. On Sunday, George Lindsey, who played Goober, died.